Re: [gnome-flashback] 4k display

[Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>]

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On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Francesco Wofford <francescowofford gmail com> wrote:

Thanks a lot for your help, now it's usable. I've found a few issues:
- the mouse cursor changes its size between programs (i.e. it's ok in the desktop but very small in firefox even if lunched from the panel internet tab)

Did you restart your session? Maybe that will improve something... For me cursor becomes smaller only when I want resize windows. That is metacity bug. I opened bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769798

Can you tell metacity and gnome-panel version? Do you use Ubuntu? What version? I mostly use ubuntu development version - 16.10...

- with the GDK_SCALE=1 gnome-panel  command the panel is very small but GDK_SCALE=2 gnome-panel it's too big and goes beyond the desktop area

Sorry, this currently is best option. GNOME Panel is not ready for HiDPI. I already tried to fix this and failed... To much work to make it work with existing code. In short - this will be fixed when I will have time to rewrite panel code.

As for the patch I think that I should be able to recompile it. I have downloaded the sources just now so I don't really know your codebase but I'm a Computer Science student with a bit of experience in open source developing so I'd also like to contribute to the project where and when I can (unfortunately I don't have a lot of free time lately) if possible.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-panel/commit/?id=367b7dfee1e13e6d417f8f65d6979f549a672ab6

You need this commit.

2016-08-12 12:21 GMT+02:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:

Hi,

you probably want/need this:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2

But gnome-panel is not ready for this (you will see why)... To "fix" this I am restarting gnome-panel with this command:

GDK_SCALE=1 gnome-panel --replace &

Worst part of this is that applications launched from gnome-panel will inherit this environment variable. Because of that I keep gnome-terminal open "forever" so I can start most apps from it. If you know how to re-build gnome-panel I might prepare small patch.

Feel free to open bug for this and/or any other bugs/problems that you find in GNOME Flashback.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Francesco Wofford <francescowofford gmail com> wrote:

Hi guys I use gnome flashback and I appreciate the work you're doing. Recently I've bought a 4k monitor but I can't find a way to enlarge the icons and toolbars (they apper a way too small in 4k), is there a way to do that?

Thanks,

Francesco

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